In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger reports on how the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, seeks to regain his lost popularity with an outback circus in which he performs in the role of war leader.
Once again, Australia is stealing its Indigenous children
In an investigation for the Guardian, John Pilger expands the evidence in his new film, ‘Utopia’, to reveal the scandal of a second Stolen Generation.
Utopia
An investigation into Australia’s suppressed colonial past and rapacious present. Epic in its production, scope and revelations, Utopia represents a long journey through the ‘secret country’ of John Pilger’s homeland. It is his fourth film about Indigenous Australia, the oldest, most enduring human presence on Earth. Released in 2013 and filmed over two years, Utopia […]
Australia’s boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger reveals that the story of the first Australians is still one of poverty and humiliation, while their land yields the world’s biggest resources boom.
How the chosen ones ended Australia’s sporting prowess and revealed its secret past
John Pilger describes how sports-obsessed Australia’s disappointing showing at the London Olympics offered a glimpse of a secret past.
Power, propaganda and conscience in the ‘War on Terror’
John Pilger delivers the Summer School Lecture at the University of Western Australia in Perth on power, propaganda and conscience in the ‘war on terror’, with special reference to the part played by Australian government, media and scholarship.
The reds down under are revolting
John Pilger describes a personal loss as the quality of Australia’s once distinguished wine declines – a lesson for others as the greed of “cash cropping” threatens a nation’s food supply.
Back to the point of departure
John Pilger reflects on the idea of a journey, and wonders, like TS Eliot, if the point of travelling is also to find out where you came from. However, the unsuspected and tragic can change everything.
Welcome to the world’s first murdochracy
John Pilger goes back to Australia, where Rupert Murdoch launched his worldwide media empire, and describes how his and Murdoch’s homeland has become a murdochracy – a country where important media, issues and perception are influenced if not dominated by Murdochism: “an inspiration to his choir on seven continents”.
When the Olympics comes to Sydney, it will provide a facade for a shameful Australia
Sydney is one of the world’s most desirable cities. I grew up here and I keep coming back to my former home at Bondi, with its cocktail of salt spray, milk shakes, dogshit and other summer fragrances; a Hindu returning to the Ganges will understand.
